U.S. quietly offers rewards for Benghazi attackers

The State Department offers rewards for any information on people involved. | Reuters

By ASSOCIATED PRESS | 11/15/13 1:32 PM EST

WASHINGTON — The State Department says it has been quietly offering rewards since January of up to $10 million for information about the attack last year on U.S. diplomatic post in Libya.

In a letter sent to Congress Friday, the department says the rewards were not advertised on its website or posters or matchbooks as is usually done. That's because of security issues around the investigation into the attack on the mission in Benghazi that killed U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans.